Last name: DURHAM
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DURHAM : This last name is indexed 93,425 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DURHAM : English:: 1: habitational name from the city of Durham recorded as Dunholm in 1056 and Duram in 1297 named from Old English dūn ‘hill’ (see Down 1) + late Old English holm (from Old Norse holmr ‘island’).2: variant of Derham.
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